Funds will Provide Resources for Road Construction and Help Create 1,000 Jobs

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

WASHINGTON
D.C. - U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today announced that $1,055,260 was
awarded to Community Improvement Corporation of Springfield and the City of
Springfield to improve access roads for the new Prime Ohio II Industrial Park.
The funds, awarded by the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development
Administration (EDA), will build new infrastructure to attract tenants. EDA
notes that the project will help support the creation of an estimated 1,000 new
jobs.

"Yesterday's
hard-hit regions are becoming tomorrow's economic development hubs," said
Brown. "These infrastructure investments will help to lay the groundwork
to help attract new jobs to the region."

The
Prime Ohio II Industrial Park is located off of Interstate-70 and has rail
access. This project is also expected to help the region recover from the
severe wind storms of 2008 associated with Tropical Depression Ike.

Earlier
this week, Brown attended a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking
Housing and Urban Affairs today entitled "Investing in Infrastructure: Creating
Jobs and Growing the Economy." In his statement, Brown called for targeted
infrastructure investments that will create jobs and strengthen our nation's
economy.

President
Obama's recent proposal to rehabilitate the nation's transportation
infrastructure by creating an "infrastructure bank" augments Recovery Act
efforts already underway. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's
transportation stimulus funds will be spent in nearly every Ohio county and
create or retain an estimated 21,257 jobs.